The all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to expose the decadelong injustice went unheard.

I used the suggested title my Lemmy app gave me for this one, the actual title

The Scandal that Never Happened

needs the subheadline

Years ago, the all-white judges of a Louisiana appellate court decided, in secret, to systematically ignore petitions filed by prisoners, most of them Black, who claimed they had been unjustly convicted.

to explain it, but that pushed things past the 200 character limit.

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